Evangeline

Character Information

Name: Evangeline A.K. McDowell
Canon: Negima / UQ Holder
Canon Point: Negima epilogue
Age: ~6-700 (Negima) 7-800 (UQH). By default appears 10 but can magic that around. Usually appears 25 in UQH.

World Information:

The wiki sucks so this is all getting written out, sorry. Negima belongs to the ranks of the legions of modern fantasy settings where magic and magical creatures and realms exist but they are hidden from an otherwise familiar modern world. Tens of millions of people around the world can use magic, and are governed in their capacity as mages by regional mage associations which conspire to keep their existence secret, using a combination of memory-wiping spells and powerful electronic spirits that let them control the internet.

There are magical civilizations on Mars and Venus, however due to the machinations of powerful mages, both exist in 'inversions', magical planes mapped to the surface of the planet and sharing its geography but hidden from outside observation and access other than a few magical gates. Of these the Martian civilizations (some created magically with the world, some formed by immigrating human mages) are quite young, Inverse Mars having been created only a thousand years ago, while the Venusian civilization long precedes Earth's history. The Venusians are the 'demons' of the setting, and not much is known about them except that they follow an apparently feudal system and, unlike the Martians, they were living on the surface of the planet when the Elders turned it inside-out and apparently had a pretty bad time of it.

UQ Holder, the sequel, takes place in the late 21st century and is more of a cyberpunk setting. Due to the events at the end of Negima, knowledge of magic was revealed to world leaders to accelerate space technology so that Inverse Mars could be saved from collapse by terraforming regular old Mars. As a result many magics have been commercialized and are available to laypeople, and magic is used in most of the technology of the time. Lots of cyborgs and space travel and weird internet doom viruses that steal your soul.

Personal History:

So first a note: UQ Holder is in many ways set up as a sequel to Negima but there's some alternate timeline crap involved. At the end of Negima Eva and a character named Chao Lingshen use time travel to create a 'happy ending' for Negima by taking a third character, Asuna, from the far future and returning her to the time Negima takes place in. But according to UQ Holder this caused a timeline split, and there's now a timeline without Asuna where things don't go so well. This is where UQ Holder takes place. In theory this means that all flashbacks in UQ Holder to events before Negima are valid history for Negima, but it's not really clear whether some of the time travel in UQ Holder is supposed to have already happened in the Negima timeline, or if the the time travel in UQ Holder results in yet another split to a different UQ-Negima-UQ timeline. There are a few inconsistencies that suggest the latter, but might just be author retcons of information that was always secondhand in Negima anyway, or UQ Holder might actually be a totally distinct timeline that just borrows most of its plot from Negima. However for sanity's sake I'm just going to assume that any events that weren't *directly* impacted by the time travel in UQ Holder are part of Negima history. Anyway, onto the history:

Eva was born in France sometime in the 14th or early 15th century, got sick as a kid, was given to a healer by her parents. The healer turned her into a vampire as an experiment. Eva assumed her nemesis was just some mage experimenting to gain immortality but the offending mage was actually the Lifemaker, a godlike super-mage who was already immortal, so unbeknownst to Eva she survived Eva 'killing' her in retaliation.

Eva found her hometown had been destroyed, and after wandering around for a few years she was abducted by the Elders, the 'real' vampires (you know, from Venus) and given to one of their number, Dana, for reasons that have never been adequately explained, but don't seem to have amounted to more than 'you have to learn to vampire our way so you don't embarrass us.' There's some various time travel shenanigans involving the UQ Holder viewpoint character where they meet in Dana's time castle and kind of develop teenage crushes on each other. This is one of those things I'm not sure is properly part of the original Negima timeline but Eva forgets about him anyway so... not important to Negima at all.

At some point Dana cut Eva loose and she started going around killing mages who were abusing the population since she was pretty sure they killed her parents. Eventually this led her to discover that the mages were part of a covert invasion by Megalomesembria, the country of human mages on Mars, so she promptly moved on to fighting one of their Senators, his private army, and his patron, the Elder Ba'al. Along the way she found some of her first fellow immortal allies (Karin and Jinbei), defeated Ba'al by yeeting him out of the universe, and eventually threatened all of Megalomesembria.

So she got what she wanted - Megalomesembria stopped invading Earth. But due to her violent loner methods and lack of a press office this only resulted in her being remembered, even among mages on Earth, as a horrifying monster. The magical authorities put a huge bounty on her head, and she wound up killing enormous numbers of people who were after her for the money or her reputation or as revenge for someone she killed before or what-have-you. Between this and Ba'al unbanning himself and turning Karin into a giant tree she began to wear down into a grim and fatalistic person who to a degree embraced her own reputation. However according to her description in Negima there weren't only bad times; there were also periods in her life where she was able to live anonymously in peace, especially as more time passed.

Then there's a big tone shift as we get to the actual beginning of Negima, a mostly lighthearted comedy, and the actual origin of her character before UQH took its darker tone. Eva in her loner wanderings was 'rescued' from some minor mishap by Nagi Springfield, super famous magic guy, and she started stalking him. Eventually he got tired of her awkward infatuation and cursed her to attend high school until she socialized a bit. Then he wandered off and got eaten by the Lifemaker leaving Eva stuck attending school, forever. Eventually by probably-not-at-all-a-coincidence Nagi's son Harry Potter Negi Springfield was sent to the school to teach to finish his apprenticeship and got loaded up with all the magical students in probably-a-plot to railroad him into picking up his father's legacy. Which Eva may or may not have been in on, her level of foreknowledge is never revealed.

Eva starts off harassing him, purportedly in a bid to escape, but eventually saves his bacon from some serious magical shit and becomes the harsh and overbearing mentor to Negi and the other unfortunate students with magical origins she considers worthy of her attention, guiding both the development of their magical and martial skills and putting them to moral tests. She inevitably goes a bit soft on her new friends (only a little though) and in the finale she finds out she was made by the Lifemaker and they all fight the Lifemaker, who was also Nagi, and Asuna (a major character who is important both for her plot-relevant superpowers and being the chief example of Eva's weird love-hate relationship with naive idiots who think they're heroes) temporarily banishes the Lifemaker.

Then they have to make Asuna sleep for a century to save Mars because they stopped the Lifemaker from saving it a way they didn't like. In the epilogue Eva and Chao do the aforementioned time travel to take Asuna back to where she left off so she doesn't have to live in a world where everyone she knows is dead. This results in the happy ending where they defeat the Lifemaker and free Nagi and save Mars and bring lasting peace and justice to Earth and a kitten curls up in everyone's lap.

As mentioned this opens up an alternate timeline where UQ Holder takes place. Since I'm apping from a Negima canon point I'm not going into much detail, but for personality purposes what matters is that she had started to admit she honestly liked all the Negima kids, only for Negi and a bunch of them to get eaten by the Lifemaker, and she resolved herself to kill them all if it was necessary to stop the Lifemaker. As a result, while she still shows an occasional flare for the dramatic, for the most part she's much more subdued and her philosophical musing are mostly self-oriented instead of being meant for others.

Personality:

Short version: Eva's an aloof, abrasive megalomaniac who uses her reputation as a villain and immense experience to keep anyone from getting too close to her, but she has a tendency to come to like them anyway and as much as her jaded philosophy seems a tool to justify her disdain for others, it is also the means by which she accepts their faults and the reason she tries to offer them the path of ignorant peace and spare them the sort of struggles she experienced.

Long version...

Eva’s personality develops mostly from her pride, her sense of alienation, and her inconsistent ability to maintain the distance from others she considers proper, which results in a very two-sided character. To strangers, or when she holds herself above the silliness the other characters frequently engage in, she comes off as the jaded, aloof immortal. She's been there, done that, and will cite an example from 400 years ago for comparison; she's seen and caused countless deaths and believes that people from more peaceful times can’t and shouldn’t share the world with her; she knows well that she can outlast, or wait to receive, anything in time. In her own words she describes this last point as resulting in immortals possessing a shallow or trivial character, as they approach everything with the assumption that they will also be leaving it behind soon enough. As a result she tends to keep to herself, and when she does engage with others she usually still maintains a distance, often by harshly criticizing or deflating others with her cynical views, and treating as inconsequential or inevitable, or otherwise defensively intellectualizing, the hardships she or others face. Though she often uses her long experience to produce abstract examples she especially dislikes telling others about her own past, and has to be badgered excessively to give even quick, glossed-over recounting.

Where she fails to keep this great distance, either because of her own genuine interest or because others ignore her bullshit, her active sense of pride usually emerges instead. For all her conceits that the naïve folk around her - especially the children she’s trapped with for most of Negima - occupy a totally different moral universe and are beneath her attention, with anyone she develops an interest in or who insists successfully on interacting with her she demands respect and if she can’t get that, fear. Despite the pain it caused her in the past she’ll often play up her villainous reputation for intimidation value, and she enjoys having her murky, cynical musings treated as wisdom and lectures her favorites frequently. She’s also proud of her magical knowledge and skill, and enjoys being treated as a teacher on the subject of magic too. While she never shows more of her power than she needs to, she does seem to relish the rare opportunities that do arise to apply the greater extent of her ability with magic and indulges in showmanship and often excessive bragging or unsubtle false humility at such times.

While this desire to teach and nurture is one of the more positive aspects of her personality, when combined with her aforementioned embrace of her villainous reputation, belief in the moral necessity of self-doubt and reflection, and tendency to analyze and dig into other’s weaknesses, the result is that her methods, and certainly her own apparent glee in her teaching process, verge on the sadistic. Of course the tone of Negima is such that she really does teach her students a lot, about both practical skills and themselves, is thanked more than she’s actually comfortable with for it, and never actually abandons or cripples any of them, so it’s somewhat up to interpretation whether she knows exactly what she’s doing and applies great but appropriate pressure, or is just a tyrannical bully that got lucky.

Eva’s pride often comes through impulsively - when she’s challenged by people she thinks have no standing and lashes out, or when she’s bored and deigns to interact with others to occupy herself – but all that boasting and pontificating and quoting classical literature is also very pretentious and sometimes obfuscating, and this is called out by both Evangeline’s social nemesis, Albireo, and Eva herself, who sometimes has the good grace to be embarrassed by the airs she puts on and reflects at least once that she’s gotten too preachy in her old age.

Still for all her pride is sometimes defensive and a less-than-ideal method of making friends and influencing people it does represent her ability to continue to enjoy, in her own way, her long life, and overcome not through instantaneous catharsis but her own resilience and adaptability her once-despairing self that held no hope for the future. This is evident in smaller details too – her many hobbies (she’s known to like board games a lot and styles a lot of position of herself as the villain with references to RPGs) and bigger projects like the creation of her dioramas and Chachamaru, her golem/robot ‘daughter’.

And beneath the aloof pride there is a part of Eva that genuinely likes people; she even goes so far to say, in of her very rare candid moments, that she finds it too easy to come to like them. Though she is judgmental of flaws she also has a tolerant sense that all people are flawed in some way, and that indeed those people who she criticizes for being naïve and unworthy of their pretenses and aspirations are that way because they live peaceful lives, and that however much it annoys Eva this is a good thing. She divides between this ‘light path’ walked by those who must surrender real responsibility but can become happy, and a ‘dark path’ for those who abandon happiness and naivete to pursue great things. Eva’s morality, informed by her own stint of tragic heroism, holds that wielding power is inherently hypocritical and arrogant, giving rise to suffering and the possibility of disaster, and that this an understanding that those who would hold responsibilities must come to. While Eva claims to like, and certainly intellectually appreciates, those who have this capacity for reflection, gravitas, and self-sacrifice – the tragic heroes, in other words – it’s a constant of her personality that she pities the fools who don’t know well enough to stay naïve, and admires despite herself heedlessness and optimism when they come in a sufficiently dauntless package.

Key themes:

It's okay to struggle or fail; there is still a life after loss.

Main Motivation:

Stop attending school, mack on Nagi.

Skills:

Magic:

She's a super-wizard who can write new spells so... there's a lot of flexibility there. But in general:

-Shoots ice at things, freezes things, disintegrates things.
-Can also use elemental magic outside her ice/dark affinity, but usually doesn't.
-Traps people in dreams or pocket dimensions. Can modify rules in other people's.
-Can teleport long-distance between shadows.
-Super strong and super fast and flies and *teleports behind you* and all that jazz.
-Pretty much invincible (via extremely fast regeneration/autoresurrection).
-Just generally excellent at the countermagic/countercountermagic game (tends to ignore foes' defenses, lots of exotic attacks don't work on her).
-Has an army of golems hiding in her shadow or something.
-Tricky wire skills for tying people up with a twitch of the finger.
-Spooky extra-dark magic that absorbs or reflects spells and spirit attacks and holes in the universe.
-Has a super mode because why not. Basically just makes her cast spells way faster.
-Also a vampire, but it's barely relevant. Can discorporate, can enthrall people by biting them, gets a minor power boost by drinking blood. None of this ever comes up after early Negima.
-Can write magically binding contracts.
-Can use Negima's infamous Pactio system. Kiss your friends, kiss your enemies, kiss random strangers - it'll let you share magic and buff them and give them cool random loot up to and including legendary artifacts lost to time for reasons that have never gotten even the slightest explanation.
-Can also do doll contracts, which let her do similar magic-share stuff with soulless beings.
-Probably has some sort of monstrous final form, idk.

The main things I usually end up wanting mod adjudication for in structured RP are her ability to create pocket dimensions, long distance teleportation, and the invulnerability.

Mundane skills:
-Pretentiously quoting 19th-century novels.
-Chess and go player.
-Apparently a pretty good cook... if you like mouth-destroying levels of spiciness.
-Into tea ceremony.
-Somehow didn't get fired while working as an actual, formally employed teacher.
-She has a collection of magic castles in bottles so she might know how to do architecture.
-Despite claiming she thinks science and mundane administrative matters are boring and beneath her, she's wound up with a leading role in two completely groundbreaking science projects. So she might be good at that stuff. I never saw her performance reviews.

Item:

Chachazero. The first doll Eva made. While most of them are life sized or larger, Zero is less than two feet tall. She tends to take her cues from the nastier aspects of Eva's personality. She is dormant and inanimate unless Eva supplies her with mana using a doll contract.

Sample:

Here.

Notes:

NAME: Evangeline A.K. McDowell, dba Yukihime
CANON: Negima/UQ Holder
CANON POINT: c. chapter 151
AGE: 7-800. Appears 25 in the Yukihime persona she uses in UQ Holder, appears 10 in her original body. Just planning on apping her as having the Yukihime appearance all the time.


BACKGROUND:
Note that the majority of the following is flashbacks presented at different times and nearly as disjointed in the original presentation as in my presentation:

Eva was born in France sometime in the 14th century, got sick as a kid, was given to a healer by her parents, who turned her into a vampire as an experiment. Eva assumed her nemesis was just some mage experimenting to gain immortality but she was actually the Lifemaker, a godlike super-mage who was already immortal, so she survived when Eva thought she killed her.

After wandering around for a few years she was abducted by all the 'real' vampires (you know, from Venus) and given to one of their number, Dana, for reasons that have never been adequately explained, but don't seem to have amounted to more than 'you have to learn to vampire our way so you don't embarrass us.' Due to otherwise pointless time travel shenanigans she met Touta, apparently to crappily shoehorn in a pretext for him to have some kind of shot with her romantically. But in the ensuing centuries she mostly forgot about him and decided he was a bit full of shit so... not necessarily a great shot.

At some point she graduated from her very unloved vampire apprenticeship and decided to become A Hero Of Justice by fighting the colonization and enslavement of Earth by evil wizards from Mars. Along the way she found some of her first fellow immortal allies (Karin and Jinbei), fought one of her prehistoric Venusian vampire predecessors, Ba'al, and blew him out of the universe, and threatened all of Megalomesembria (the country of human mages on Mars) as a miles-tall giant.

So she got what she wanted - Megalomesembria stopped invading Earth. But due to her violent loner methods and lack of a press office this only resulted in her being remembered, even among mages on Earth, as a horrifying monster. The magical authorities put a huge bounty on her head, and she wound up killing enormous numbers of people who were after her for the money or her reputation or as revenge for someone she killed before or what-have-you. Between this and Ba'al unbanning himself and turning Karin into a giant tree she began to wear down into a grim and fatalistic person who to a degree embraced her own reputation. However according to her description in Negima there weren't only bad times; there were also periods in her life where she was able to live anonymously in peace, especially as more time passed.

Then in Tone Shifts we get out of UQH flashback land and into Negima, a mostly lighthearted comedy, and the actual origin of her character before UQH decided to Dark and Serious it. Eva in her loner wanderings was 'rescued' from some minor mishap by Nagi Springfield, super famous magic guy, and she started stalking him. Eventually he got tired of her awkward infatuation and cursed her to attend high school until she socialized a bit. Then he wandered off and got eaten by the Lifemaker leaving Eva stuck attending high school, forever. Eventually by probably-not-at-all-a-coincidence Nagi's son Harry Potter Negi Springfield was sent to the school to teach to finish his apprenticeship.

She starts off harassing him, purportedly in a bid to escape, but eventually saves his bacon from some serious magical shit and becomes the harsh and overbearing mentor to Negi and the other unfortunate students with magical origins she considers worthy of her attention, guiding both the development of their magical and martial skills and putting them to moral tests. She inevitably goes a bit soft on her new friends (only a little though) and in the finale she finds out she was made by the Lifemaker and they all fight the Lifemaker, who was also Nagi, and Asuna (she's important and has plot-relevant superpowers and I don't want to describe her beyond the fact that Eva hates her for being cheerful and dumb and secretly having superpowers that will ruin her cheerful dumbness) temporarily banishes the Lifemaker.

Then they have to make Asuna sleep for a century to save Mars because they stopped the Lifemaker from saving it a way they didn't like. In the epilogue Eva (and Chao Lingshen, if you really want a name that means nothing) travel through time to take Asuna back to where she left off so she doesn't have to live in a world where everyone she knows is dead. This results in the happy ending where they defeat the Lifemaker and free Nagi and save Mars and bring lasting peace and justice to Earth and a kitten curls up in everyone's lap.

Unfortunately there's this leftover timeline where Asuna isn't around and there everything goes to shit, which is approximately where UQ Holder takes place. Negi goes off for the Final Battle with the Lifemaker... twice... and loses most of his friends the first time, then gets eaten by the Lifemaker the second time. He does manage to steal some Nagi-stuff from the Lifemaker the first time around and free Eva from her mandatory school attendance, at which point she reunites with Karin and Jinbei and goes in with Fate (the other cynical super-wizard of the protagonists. Though he's the antagonist 99% of both stories, really) on a plan to clone immortal super kids with the rarest super magic to kill the Lifemaker with.

Unfortunately that's difficult and Fate starts selling off the kids as supersoldiers to pay for their extremely expensive research, which turns out to be something of the bulldozer that broke the camel's back with regard to Eva's mounting doubts in the practical and ethical suitability of the project, while Fate (correctly) suspects her of being willing to kill Negi and Nagi with the Lifemaker if necessary, in opposition to Fate's resolve to save them, and they have a massive falling out.

She runs off to make a gang of immortals, the titular UQ Holder, to try to keep the world safe her own way. Eventually she quits because she finds them smothering and they eat her labeled leftovers from the fridge and while wandering around finds one of her super-clones and time travel first crush, Touta, who's in the middle of being murdered with his family. She turns him into some sort of half-vampire to save him and raises him for a bit before turning him into a full Black of Venus vampire to save him again after her past catches up with them. They then rejoin UQ Holder and hundreds of chapters of nonsense and flashbacks ensue.

The non-flashback course of the story doesn't really have much movement for Eva. The gang gets in some inconclusive scuffles with Fate, Touta entered the time travel shenanigans already described, and the Negi-Lifemaker came back to Earth to start shit with Eva and then leave without actually accomplishing anything. Eva killed one of the clone kids Fate sold off while she was trying to avenge herself on Touta in one of her colder moments.

In addition to the whole 'defeat the Lifemaker' superplot that barely ever progresses there's technically this subplot about how due to economic inequality from space colonization the solar system is ripe for massive conflicts but it's mostly forgotten in favor of romcom and flashbacks too. Also Ba'al is plotting something that's finally starting to happen as of this writing.


PERSONALITY:
Eva’s personality develops mostly from her pride, her sense of alienation, and her inconsistent ability to maintain the distance from others she considers proper, which results in a very two-sided character. To strangers, or when she holds herself above the silliness the other characters frequently engage in, she comes off as the jaded, aloof immortal. She's been there, done that, and will cite an example from 400 years ago for comparison; she's seen and caused countless deaths and believes that people from more peaceful times can’t and shouldn’t share the world with her; she knows well that she can outlast, or wait to receive, anything in time. In her own words she describes this last point as resulting in immortals possessing a shallow or trivial character, as they approach everything with the assumption that they will also be leaving it behind soon enough. As a result she tends to keep to herself, and when she does engage with others she usually still maintains a distance, often by harshly criticizing or deflating others with her cynical views, and treating as inconsequential or inevitable, or otherwise defensively intellectualizing, the hardships she or others face. Though she often uses her long experience to produce abstract examples she especially dislikes telling others about her own past, and has to be badgered excessively to give even quick, glossed-over recounting.

Where she fails to keep this great distance, either because of her own genuine interest or because others ignore her bullshit, her active sense of pride usually emerges instead. For all her conceits that the naïve folk around her - especially the children she’s trapped with for most of Negima - occupy a totally different moral universe and are beneath her attention, with anyone she develops an interest in or who insists successfully on interacting with her she demands respect and if she can’t get that, fear. Despite the pain it caused her in the past she’ll often play up her villainous reputation for intimidation value, and she enjoys having her murky, cynical musings treated as wisdom and lectures her favorites frequently. She’s also proud of her magical knowledge and skill, and enjoys being treated as a teacher on the subject of magic too. While she never shows more of her power than she needs to, she does seem to relish the rare opportunities that do arise to apply the greater extent of her ability with magic and indulges in showmanship and often excessive bragging or unsubtle false humility at such times.

While this desire to teach and nurture is one of the more positive aspects of her personality, when combined with her aforementioned embrace of her villainous reputation, belief in the moral necessity of self-doubt and reflection, and tendency to analyze and dig into other’s weaknesses, the result is that her methods, and certainly her own apparent glee in her teaching process, verge on the sadistic. Of course the tone of Negima is such that she really does teach her students a lot, about both practical skills and themselves, is thanked more than she’s actually comfortable with for it, and never actually abandons or cripples any of them, so it’s somewhat up to interpretation whether she knows exactly what she’s doing and applies great but appropriate pressure, or is just a tyrannical bully that got lucky.

Eva’s pride often comes through impulsively - when she’s challenged by people she thinks have no standing and lashes out, or when she’s bored and deigns to interact with others to occupy herself – but all that boasting and pontificating and quoting classical literature is also very pretentious and sometimes obfuscating, and this is called out by both Evangeline’s social nemesis, Albireo, and Eva herself, who sometimes has the good grace to be embarrassed by the airs she puts on and reflects at least once that she’s gotten too preachy in her old age.

Still for all her pride is sometimes defensive and a less-than-ideal method of making friends and influencing people it does represent her ability to continue to enjoy, in her own way, her long life, and overcome not through instantaneous catharsis but her own resilience and adaptability her once-despairing self that held no hope for the future. This is evident in smaller details too – her many hobbies (she’s known to like board games a lot and styles a lot of position of herself as the villain with references to RPGs) and bigger projects like the creation of her dioramas and Chachamaru, her golem/robot ‘daughter’.

And beneath the aloof pride there is a part of Eva that genuinely likes people; she even goes so far to say, in of her very rare candid moments, that she finds it too easy to come to like them. Though she is judgmental of flaws she also has a tolerant sense that all people are flawed in some way, and that indeed those people who she criticizes for being naïve and unworthy of their pretenses and aspirations are that way because they live peaceful lives, and that however much it annoys Eva this is a good thing. She divides between this ‘light path’ walked by those who must surrender real responsibility but can become happy, and a ‘dark path’ for those who abandon happiness and naivete to pursue great things. Eva’s morality, informed by her own stint of tragic heroism, holds that wielding power is inherently hypocritical and arrogant, giving rise to suffering and the possibility of disaster, and that this an understanding that those who would hold responsibilities must come to. While Eva claims to like, and certainly intellectually appreciates, those who have this capacity for reflection, gravitas, and self-sacrifice – the tragic heroes, in other words – it’s a constant of her personality that she pities the fools who don’t know well enough to stay naïve, and admires despite herself heedlessness and optimism when they come in a sufficiently dauntless package.


POWERS/ABILITIES:
She's a wizard and a vampire. She has an ice/darkness element affinity and mostly shoots ice at things, traps them in ice, turns them into ice, etc. She can use other elements but usually doesn't. Some of her really powerful ice/dark spells directly screw around with energy levels of matter and functionally work as molecular disintegration. She also uses a lot of magic that affects dream worlds and pocket dimensions, and can force other people's minds into waking dreams, force their bodies into her dream realm, put giant landscapes in tiny glass spheres, nullify a pseudo-god's control of their own dream realm, lots of slick wizard stuff like that. She's famous as a puppet mage, keeps an army of golems in her shadow sometimes, and can magically control strings to tie people up and stuff.

In addition to the golems and magical dioramas she can make other magical items like weapons and magical medicines or foods that affect mind or appearance. She can also make pacts to share magical power and write magical contracts that compel obedience in the signatory.

She's a Black of Venus immortal, which basically means she's a vampire with few if any drawbacks, and she's metaphysically connected to the planet Venus which reverses death and seemingly any level of bodily damage (eg. the high level immortals are all convinced they'd survive if the whole Earth just exploded one day). Immortal fights in UQ Holder as a result are mostly about removing, entombing, magically sealing, or mentally disabling the opponent; Eva for example has a spell that causes the nerves to fire continuously, and one that inverts and freezes the opponent's magical barriers so they're just stuck in stasis in their own barriers forever.

She has a unique ability called Magia Erebea that manipulates her Black of Venus characteristics somehow or another to allow her to absorb magic, which stores spells for late ruse and augments the user. She has an enchantment built on the ability called Queen of Ice that allows her to cast most ice magic with negligible casting and refractory time and spam spells at the speed of thought. She can also absorb and reflect hostile magic or spiritual attacks using the ability.

She has some typical vampire abilities like discorporation into shadow-bat-things, creating thralls, and gains some power by drinking blood, but generally these are more set dressing and don't come up much compared to her magic. She says as an undead she can't use healing, and she sees even very faint ghosts easily.

Mobility wise she can use your animanga flash-stepping nonsense, fly and teleport by creating gates through shadows.

Also an expert martial artist with superhuman physical abilities. Of course.

In general she's highly potent in mage-versus-mage fights and can ignore most magical defenses and break many spells but she sometimes has trouble with technological antimagic.

NERFS ETC.:
Creating thralls would of course require permission, same with dumping anyone in a prison dimension or whatever. Since she's immortal the threat of death from miasma is irrelevant to her but could probably just say it's debilitating or stops her from drawing on magic or something too so her ability to proceed through it would be limited as normal.

Not sure if her ability to fly in space is a problem let me know on that. Probably say she can't teleport anywhere she hasn't been already and has limited range on scrying so she can't just skip areas.

Since she figures out time travel or something adjacent at some point I'll just go ahead and say she can't do that.


INVENTORY:
The clothes on her back, backpack with a few changes.

MOONBLESSING:
Sanguis.